Cloud Native Development Patterns and Best Practices

Event streaming

Event streaming is our message-driven, publish, and subscribe mechanism for asynchronous inter-component communication. Asynchronous, event-based messaging has long been known for its ability to create loosely coupled systems. Producers publish events without knowledge of the consumers and the consumers are only coupled to the event type definitions, not the producers of the events. The location of producers and consumers is transparent, which facilitates elasticity and resilience. Producers and consumers need only access the messaging system, there is no need for service discovery to determine the location of other components. The components operate in complete isolation. Messages can be produced even when the consumers are ...